| MASSEXODUS | Scholar and two sons book flight? (4,6) |
| JIHADIS | Jack and two sons cornering experienced militants |
| OGRESS | Monstrous female and two sons therefore turned back (6) |
| MASS | A mother and two sons, you gather (4) |
| EXODUS | Book - flight (6) |
| BANABHATTA | Indian Sanskrit scholar and poet of Kadambari and Harsh Charit, fame |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar and poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes March, Bredon Hill, The Lent Lily and Hughley Steeple (7) |
| TOLKIEN | Fantasy writer, Inklings co-founder, literary scholar and philologist who coined or popularised numerous words including ent, eucatastrophe, dwarves, hobbit, mithril, orc, palantir, tween and warg (7) |
| ROGERASCHAM | English humanist scholar and writer who served as tutor (1548-50) and Latin secretary (1558-68) to Queen Elizabeth I (5,6) |
| ERASMUS | Dutch scholar and humanist |
| MAGI | Wise men enlist scholar and soldier (4) |
| MAUL | Handle roughly scholar and university lecturer (4) |
| PETRARCA | Italian scholar and poet who died in 1374 (8) |
| VARRO | Roman scholar and author |
| POSNER | Legal scholar and "A Failure of Capitalism" author Richard |
| ULAMA | Muslim scholar and Buddhist priest backing university |
| ISIDORE | Saint ___ (c560 - 636 AD), a Spanish scholar and cleric (7) |
| CICERO | Roman scholar and statesman (6) |
| BANANA | Scholar and nurse share fruit (6) |
| LAPLACE | Pierre-Simon , French scholar and scientist born in 1749 (7) |
